Close Interop 2025's call for proposals

[nairnandu]

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[sandstrom]

@dandclark Is it too late to propose more items?

My suggestion is better cross-browser support for <datalist>. The MDN docs has some good examples:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist

In short, some things that doesn't work well across browser are:

• No date and time support in Firefox and Safari.
• Broken range support in Safari (or doesn't work like Chrome at least, no snapping).
• Mobile support is spotty (broken in iOS currently, suggestions when typing has started is so-so)
• Inconsistency across browsers in whether the options are shown immediately, or after typing has started.
• Not easy to style the UI of the suggestions (one could argue that's a feature too though). Firefox doesn't

Argument

This is a very powerful primitive which has the potential for autocomplete experience for users with zero Javascript. However, at the current level of polish it's hard to justify using it.

Resources

• https://caniuse.com/datalist
• https://www.peterbe.com/plog/datalist-looks-great-on-mobile-devices
• https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2020/02/09/when-html-is-not-enough-a-tale-of-the-datalist-element/